Head of Health and Care Facilities Thyregod, Nær Sundhed, Lillebælt Hospital

Do you want to help shape the future of close-to-home healthcare?

At Nær Sundhed we work to create a coherent health service, where citizens' needs set the direction, and where high professional standards and strong collaboration make the difference. We are a new department under development and we are in the middle of a major transformation process, where tasks are moved closer to the citizen, and where new cross-sector collaboration forms are crucial. We see ourselves as a cornerstone in the transformation of the health service.

From 1 January 2027, Nær Sundhed will have regional authority and operational responsibility for approximately 130 health and care placements and a consolidated regional Emergency Nursing for citizens in the municipalities of Vejle, Fredericia, Kolding and Middelfart.

Viben is a 24-hour ward located in Thyregod with 16 beds. The staff group consists of house assistants, executive cook, social and health care assistants, nurses, occupational therapists, as well as physiotherapists. As a functional manager at Viben you do not have personnel responsibility for the therapists, but for the rest of the staff in the house. Viben is also a training site for nursing students and Social and Health Care Assistants.

About the position

As a functional manager for health and care placements in Nær Sundhed, the management task is to ensure that citizens with complex health needs receive a coherent, professionally qualified and safe service in the post-treatment phase or as an alternative to hospitalization. Our task is to strengthen functional ability and well-being for the individual citizen.

You must support good interdisciplinary and cross-organizational collaboration, and that we create synergies across so that in the future we can also offer good and coherent patient pathways.

You will become part of a new department where value-based leadership at eye level with the employees becomes an essential part of the leadership foundation.

Who are you?

You must be able to create followership, maintain the high professional standards and stimulate development of the department. You have the ability to balance between setting direction and giving space for employees' professional contributions, and translate the rationale behind decisions into concrete solutions. Furthermore, you use involvement as an active driver for innovation, quality, ownership and speed in implementation.

We expect your leadership to contribute to the development of professional environments, excellent nursing and rehabilitation and the cross-disciplinary and cross-organizational collaboration. You are committed to being very close to and part of the core task in daily work and to meeting citizens, relatives, staff and partners with respect, responsibility and integrity. It is important that you are motivated by and have the ability to succeed through others.

We also imagine that you have a healthcare background, experience with professional and/or personnel leadership, and preferably experience from both the municipal and regional health sector.

About the department

Nær Sundhed is a new department at Sygehus Lillebælt, which is under development. The total management team will consist of the department leadership by the Chief Physician and Chief Nurse, as well as six functional leaders.

In the department management we are convinced that the future close-to-home health service is created when citizens' needs set the direction and professional standards and collaboration makes the difference. We move away from silos and box-ticking and towards a health service characterized by coherence, relationships and shared responsibility for the citizen's pathway.

You will become part of a department where you have influence on the development of the health service of the future, and where there is work with courage, collaboration and new solutions. Where leadership is a shared discipline – not a solo task and where the working environment is valued highly because employees and leaders are the foundation for us to succeed with the core task.

Sygehus Lillebælt is a well-consolidated hospital in positive development with an ambitious vision to be Patients' Hospital . We are known for high quality, efficient operations, a high degree of patient satisfaction and high employee satisfaction.

Salary and employment terms

Salary and employment terms for the position follow the agreement for leaders in the Health Cartel area, 32.26. The starting salary for the position can be found via the following link: See starting salary for positions in Region of Southern Denmark .

In addition to the starting salary, the pay may include negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

Application deadline, interviews and start date

The application deadline is 19.10.2026

There will be 1st interviews on 23.10.2026 and there may be a need for another interview. There may be a personality test between the 1st and 2nd interview.

Start date: 1 December 2026 or by agreement.

Further information

You are welcome to contact Chief Nurse Lene Borgen Esmann at 2320 2641 or [email protected] or Chief Physician Jakob Blaabjerg Espesen at 2972 7977 or [email protected] .

See also www.sygehuslillebaelt.dk

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